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In extra lol law news, the sacklers moved their money to trusts based in Jersey (the country, lol), so matter what happens they’re never paying more than the $6 billion.
I think a great money-raising idea would be to park an aircraft carrier off Jeresy and begin negotiations with them about trust transparency.
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Sometimes I wonder if the guys you see in films like the little brother who visits the hedge fund guy in “The accountant” exist. Would be a good time for a visit and put a syringe with an overdose of their opoids on the table.
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Since Biden isn’t going to do anything to actually fix the Supreme Court, surely he could pen an executive order to rename it to the Butt Court or if the name is specified in the Constitution rename the federal Supreme Court building to the Butt Palace or something.
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SCOTUS with the sweet and simple fuck you no defense.
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Sounds like oral arguments going very poorly in the Chevron Deference case today.
If SCOTUS overrules it it would be arguably the most catastrophic decision of this court. Worse than guns or abortion as it would severely hobble the governments ability to regulate anything.
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1747677215179895290?t=bO08cNHWl5rThjuQidkd5g&s=19
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1747679176323186941?t=lnFW6DMUV1MFMNmtK6AfzQ&s=19
I, for one, would like more red tape.
So what would be some specific examples of the implications of this assumed SCOTUS ruling?
Presumably the EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc. would have a lot less authority to impose specific regulations to implement laws. Congress would instead have to spell out the technicalities.
And no matter what Congress spells out, conservative judges will have final say over any and all regulations.
So odd that an institution that only calls balls and strikes seems to be enacting the policies that the people who make it up seem to want
Alito - making abolition illegal
Roberts - cutting Voting Rights Act
Gorsuch - removing Chevon deference
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I assume this would have insanely far reaching consequences, like every federal agency? EPA, FDA, OSHA, DOJ, Department of Education, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, USDA, TSA… All pretty well gutted until MTG and gym Jordan give them marching orders?
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If you read a regulatory law you will quickly see they contain almost no actual rules, just high level goals. Even when there are actual rules there are never ways to interpret them.
The law might say “proponent cannot impact any waterbody”. That can be interpreted in a million ways.
Regulators set those ways.
Ending Chevron deference will make that impossible.
Imagine congress having to specify that only 10 parts per million of H2S can be released at the top of a flare under 800 K with an exit velocity of 200 psi.
What congress writes is “industrial sites cannot pollute”.
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Congress, as it’s currently set up, simply can’t write regulation to the degree that’s now going to be required. The end result is no new regulation is going to be written and judges get to pick which of the existing regulations they want to keep